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Mining Towns
Looking at the systems behind community identities, and how those identities are subverted and leveraged for profit. It's not great, folks.
9 min
Craft, legibility, being seen
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Legibility in Work and Fiction
My path to technology and design is rooted in fiction. I realized this by when I revisited the source material. Here's a little note about Cryptonomicon, being legible, and startups.
10 min
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Being a Good Amateur
We’re amateurs continuously throughout our lives. For some skills — vital but sporadic skills — we remain that way. And that’s totally fine. Amateurism, over time, is its own skill to develop — and we should endeavour to leave amateur…
8 min
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Craft, Catalyst, and Expertise
Considering craft-based disciplines and catalyzing expertise
6 min
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Legibility in Design
Design is a weird drug, and at least in the software world, we’re collectively high. Since I got started in this world, there’s been a huge amount of work done to democratize design — and I’m an outcome of that. Educated in political…
4 min
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Reconstructive Design Process
Consciously metabolizing past design work to create something new
4 min